i’ve wanted to have an art car for years, and this is pretty much exactly what i’ve wanted. i only finished the hood because i got started late this afternoon (3:00 pm), but that means that i will probably finish all of the large lettering by tomorrow, so i won’t have to drive an “incomplete” art car to the store where i’m going to get the colours to finish it. it’s a little more stark than i was hoping for, but that will be taken care of once all the lettering is in place: i’ll use other colours to brighten it in the corners and areas that are too small for lettering…
whee! 8)
by the way, if you commented on this previously and your comment was deleted, it was because i was having some problems with the update page not allowing me to input HTML that i am familiar with, not putting in <lj-cut>s where they were supposed to go, and displaying an annoying HTML toolbar which didn’t do all of the things that a HTML toolbar should do… so i deleted it and started over again, and i did so before any comments had shown up from my point of view… but i think i got at least one comment shortly afterward and it wasn’t on this version, so i have to wonder…
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Ah, yes, those car-deer disagreements often end badly for the car. And if it keeps the car prtoected, why not use it? On the matter of putting your own deity on the car, well, there are more than enough Christians who do it, and so I don’t think you’ld look too out of place.
i tend to look upon Ganesha as my “ishtadevata” or “personal deity”, because He was there when i was in the hospital, right after my injury among other things… but it doesn’t hurt that i am invoking the name of Vakratunda (one of the names of Ganesha that means “The Lord of Overcoming Obstacles”) while driving… especially since it wasn’t too long ago that my wife almost totalled our other car in a disagreement with a deer…
Quite excellent, then. The prayer looks good on the hood, and if it brings the blessings of Ganesha and praises him, then it does its work properly, right?
Very cool 🙂
Fantastic!
sri ganapati sahasranamavalih is the recitation of 1008 different names of Ganesha, the Lord of learning, music, communications (reading and writing), everything that can be categorised, removing obstacles, and pretty much everything else, although it is more of a devotional prayer than it is one requesting something.
Unfortuantely, I have not had time to study the hindu faith, and so I do not recognize it as such. Is it an enumeration of the names of a being, an appeal to that being using its names, or something else?
if you’re a hindu, you might recognise it as sri ganapati sahasranamavalih, but there are only 10 names instead of all 1008…
Nice-looking car. Should I recognize the prayer on the hood?
Ah, yes, those car-deer disagreements often end badly for the car. And if it keeps the car prtoected, why not use it? On the matter of putting your own deity on the car, well, there are more than enough Christians who do it, and so I don’t think you’ld look too out of place.
i tend to look upon Ganesha as my “ishtadevata” or “personal deity”, because He was there when i was in the hospital, right after my injury among other things… but it doesn’t hurt that i am invoking the name of Vakratunda (one of the names of Ganesha that means “The Lord of Overcoming Obstacles”) while driving… especially since it wasn’t too long ago that my wife almost totalled our other car in a disagreement with a deer…
Quite excellent, then. The prayer looks good on the hood, and if it brings the blessings of Ganesha and praises him, then it does its work properly, right?
Very cool 🙂
Fantastic!
sri ganapati sahasranamavalih is the recitation of 1008 different names of Ganesha, the Lord of learning, music, communications (reading and writing), everything that can be categorised, removing obstacles, and pretty much everything else, although it is more of a devotional prayer than it is one requesting something.
Unfortuantely, I have not had time to study the hindu faith, and so I do not recognize it as such. Is it an enumeration of the names of a being, an appeal to that being using its names, or something else?
if you’re a hindu, you might recognise it as sri ganapati sahasranamavalih, but there are only 10 names instead of all 1008…
Nice-looking car. Should I recognize the prayer on the hood?